Ahead of the 30th annual Oregon Brewers Festival, Jeff Alworth and Patrick Emerson run through the festival’s beer list to discuss the beers they are most looking forward to, and how the festival’s lineup reflects larger trends in the beer industry.

Want to dive even deeper? Alworth also breaks down the Oregon Brewers Festival in his annual “by the numbers” post on the Beervana blog.

Jeff Alworth is the author of The Secrets of Master Brewers,The Beer Bible and Cider Made Simple. You can find him blogging at Beervana. Patrick Emerson is a professor of economics at Oregon State University as well as a research fellow at the Center for Applied Microeconomic Research at the São Paulo School of Economics (C-Micro). You can also find him blogging at Beeronomics.

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